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Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (3 Jan 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1558607927
ISBN-13: 978-1558607927
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 19.2 x 3.8 cm

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Rapidly evolving computer and communications technologies have achieved data transmission rates and data storage capacities high enough for digital video. But video involves much more than just pushing bits! Achieving the best possible image quality, accurate color, and smooth motion requires understanding many aspects of image acquisition, coding, processing, and display that are outside the usual realm of computer graphics. At the same time, video system designers are facing new demands to interface with film and computer system that require techniques outside conventional video engineering.

Charles Poynton's 1996 book A Technical Introduction to Digital Video became an industry favorite for its succinct, accurate, and accessible treatment of standard definition television (SDTV). In Digital Video and HDTV, Poynton augments that book with coverage of high definition television (HDTV) and compression systems.

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With the help of hundreds of high quality technical illustrations, this book presents the following topics:

* Basic concepts of digitization, sampling, quantization, gamma, and filtering
* Principles of color science as applied to image capture and display
* Scanning and coding of SDTV and HDTV
* Video color coding: luma, chroma (4:2:2 component video, 4fSC composite video)
* Analog NTSC and PAL
* Studio systems and interfaces
* Compression technology, including M-JPEG and MPEG-2
* Broadcast standards and consumer video equipment

About the Author

Charles Poynton is an independent contractor specializing in digital color imaging systems, including digital video, HDTV, and digital cinema. A Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Poynton was awarded the Society's prestigious David Sarnoff Gold Medal for his work to integrate video technology with computing and communications. Poynton is the author of the widely respected book, A Technical Introduction to Digital Video, published in 1996. Engineers (SMPTE), and in 1994 was awarded the Society's David Sarnoff Gold Medal for his work to integrate video technology with computing and communications. He is also the author of A Technical Introduction to Digital Video.

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Never shy of adding his opinion, Poynton takes the reader through a history of video algorithms and interfaces in an accessible and informative style. Why a history as well as a technical treatise on the current state of the art? Backwards compatibility as well as the current limitations of technology at each stage of development have forged current video systems. Poynton summarises this history where relevant and arrives at a full and informative description of what's current.

The book is well organised to allow easy reference, although the breadth of material covered somewhat limits the depth of detail for the video interface practicioner. References to further sources of reading are included and should allow those who need deeper understanding and details to find them.

This book is an excellent introduction to video systems design and implementation for students, for those connected to the industry in non- or semi-technical roles (e.g. sales or management) and even for those who are involved in product development and need to understand a breadth of disciplines: from clamping to colorimetry, and from spatiotemporal domains to broadcast standards.

Best of all, Poynton's personal observations, deductions and opinions enliven the subject and make the book an interesting read.

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